City of Sanctuary

Handsen's blog

New Poems

Beauty of Adjective

The grammar declare the glory
The language proclaim eloquence
There is no phrase or statement
Where the adjective is absent

The goodness is beyond comprehension
And the glow beyond flawless silver
No phrase can make meaning
Without support of the adjective

You strengthen conversations
And create flow of words
You reign without ambiguity
And never succumb to scarcity

Waiting Too Long

I am now dwelling in dark room
Which neither mice nor ants can bear?
My dignity fades away hour after hour
And worries overwhelm my mind

Each day bring vast numbers of speculation
As my brains fail to capture hope
My eyes cannot picture my prospect
As I long for the peace I deserve

I live in a house like a pig sty
Where freshness is far from my reach
I have been waiting and waiting for too long
The long wait for what exactly?
The long wait for sanctuary is more than sinister for me

A Mountain of Memories

Like berries, like baboons it can’t add up
With stinking catalogue of sorrow
Scanning the sky without skills
And draining the bone marrow like syringe

What an ambush to be in the bush
Whilst the branches sing sweet memories
Even the grass sings hatred and hell for me
As the heat is no more hidden to me

Revolving around ungreased epicentre
My hope is in need of operation
I am sinking in an unsustainable sea
As my breath is fast disappearing like dew in the morning
Like a dream like a meditation, I am in limbo

I am what I am

I am the mass movement that massacre
I swallow the low every hour without honour
I travel directionless and careless
I am the master in my market
I am the dynamic force that knows no forecast

I feed on ferocious feast
And dwell in a remote location
I reside in the glory of my powers
And my actions are too prompt to be stopped

The pain I produce knows no boundaries
I have no mercy to the mess I leave
I am unsympathetic with my uncertainty

Tumbuka Dance Company

Tumbuka is like tangerine
Because it soothe my taste
And sweeten my day
Bringing delight through dancing

Tumbuka is like shallow stream
It flows with free favours
Pruning potentials to prosperity
Without counting costs

Tumbuka is like Zimbabwean Ambassador
It travel over the world
Preaching salsa and boogie dancing
Demonstrating gifts of Zimbabweans

Tumbuka is like a wave of water
With swimmers resurfacing
Giving gazers great gratitude
Entertaining with enjoyment

Tumbuka is tonguetied
Its bloodstream is seriously blocked
Standing on the verge of vanity
Hunting for health revivers

Tumbuka is thanking you today
Appreciating your support
It will financially function
Opening the zeal of Zimbabweans
No longer tonguetied but transformed.

Cry Zimbabwean Girl

Up in the azure sky shoots the sun's rays
With its mellow rays
Rises to meet another day, another trouble
To me it's not yet any hopes rays
As more weigh down my tender shoulder
Imagine a girl of only thirteen

Setting alight fire in the young of morning
Before the cocks signal the alarm
Blanketed by berserk morning air
A beast of burden for firewood, so I am bound
My path darkened by distressing danger
All those bumpy long distances I have to foot
Not to forget the baby clinging on my yonder backĀ 

In the thorn infested forests
Drawing water in deep wells
My head carrying heavy bucket
That threatens to break my back
It makes me tired to think about
My rainbow is my tearsĀ 

All Zimbabwean girls
Stand up and be counted
Cry for thy renaissance
The rape, torture, assault and victimisation
Our life an eerie furnace of denied paradise
A swamp of devastating diseases
A journey in great jeopardy
A sad song of denied education
I am weary. So weary. Oh weary
A pain invading my pride
A breath for fresh air cometh not
Don't fall Zimbabwean girl, up and fight
Yearn for another life
Another era.